Word: laxton
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Dates: during 1935-1935
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Last week American Airlines, opening its new 16-hour southern transcontinental route with Douglases by day, Condor sleeper-planes by night, announced that the first westbound ship would be christened The Southerner by Miss Anne Laxton of Knoxville, "a descendant of the late General Stonewall Jackson." In addition, Cinemactress Carole Lombard was to be on hand as a passenger. But Miss Lombard took a TWA plane instead, as did La Motte Cohu, onetime president of American Airways. Gary Cooper also failed to appear. Among those who did appear were Wallace Beery, Mr. & Mrs. Elliott Roosevelt and Texas Publisher Amon...